Novel Word Learning- Article Search

[kohne005 at umn.edu]

Hi Jennifer and all,
The following reference looks at the initial stage of word learning in both 
languages of bilingual preschool children:


Kan, P.F. & Kohnert, K. (2008). Fast mapping by bilingual preschool 
children. Journal of Child Language, 35, 495-514.

Dr. Kan's dissertation (2009) looks at novel word learning in both 
languages of bilingual 3-5 year olds over 3 additional training sessions, 
in response to explicit instruction.

Happy holidays,

Kathryn Kohnert
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
University of Minnesota

On Dec 21 2009, Jen Menjivar wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am designing a study in which we will be teaching children a set of novel
>words in a foreign language, and subsequently testing them on their ability
>to remember the objects they were paired with. I have been looking for
>studies in which children (preschool aged- 3 and 4 year olds) have been
>directly taught novel word and object pairs and tested in the same session.
>In my search, I have found many studies in which children have been taught
>the object-novel word pairs through naturalistic interactions (i.e,
>Gershkoff-Stowe & Hahn, 2007), but have not had much luck finding any
>studies in which the children are directly and explicitly taught novel
>labels for objects. Would anyone be able to point me in the direction that
>I'm looking for?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>---
>Jennifer Menjivar
>Psychology Graduate Student
>University of California, Santa Cruz
>
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